Even in this multi-core era, traditional programming methods don’t take full advantage of multi-core systems. To do that, applications must use threads to execute code in parallel. OpenMP, an API for writing multi-threaded…

DoS (Denial of Service) attacks against Web services make them unavailable for legitimate users, affecting the website owner’s potential business. These involve intentional consumption of network, CPU and memory resources. In this article,…

Today, performance is a pivotal point in the programming world. Programmers constantly strive to make their code run in fewer milliseconds. Performance analysis can be done in various ways, static as well as…

The Metasploit framework is well known in the realm of exploit development. It is a standalone tool for security researchers, penetration testers and IDS/IPS developers. As of now, it has 640 exploit definitions…